Links from Greenpeace International

A time to act: “The extent of the Arctic sea ice this July is the second lowest on record (for the month of July).

A huge iceberg roughly the size of Manhattan has just broken off Greenland’s Petermann glacier and will soon drift down Nares Strait – an event Greenpeace warned was very likely to happen.

A large part of the Asian continent is facing unprecedented heat waves.

In Russia, this heat wave is partly responsible for unprecendented forest fires that have been chocking the capital, Moscow.”

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Paying for oil spills: “Bloomberg last week revealed that subsidies to fossil fuels worldwide outweigh renewable energy support by a ratio of 12:1. While subsidies for renewable energy worldwide amounted to US$43-46 billion last year, fossil fuels received US$557 billion in 2008 according to a recent IEA report.”

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The Energy [R]evolution: “The Energy [R]evolution demonstrates how the world can get from where we are now, to where we need to be in terms of phasing out fossil fuels, cutting CO₂ while ensuring energy security. This includes illustrating how the world’s carbon emissions from the energy and transport sectors alone can peak by 2015 and be cut by over 80 percent by 2050. This phase-out of fossil fuels offers substantial other benefits such as independence from world market fossil fuel prices as well as the creation of millions of new green jobs.”

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Renewable Energy and the Green Job [R]evolution: “The climate crisis and the financial crisis are not two competing issues that need to be addressed separately by the world community. The solution to one is, in fact, the answer to the other.”